Honiton Conservative Club

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.honitonconservativeclub.com.

Introduction

The Honiton Conservative Club is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you visit our website or use our services.

Information We Collect

We collect the following types of personal information from you:

  • Information you provide to us: We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for an account, sign up for a newsletter, subscribe to our services, or contact us. This information may include your name, email address, phone number, postal address, and other relevant information.
  • Information we collect automatically: We collect certain information automatically when you visit our website or use our services. This information may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring website, pages you visit on our website, and the date and time of your visit.
  • Information from other sources: We may receive personal information about you from other sources, such as social media platforms, public records, and third-party marketing partners.

How We Use Your Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To provide our services to you: We use your information to provide our services to you, such as managing your account, sending you newsletters, and responding to your enquiries.
  • To improve our services: We use your information to improve our services, such as analysing your usage patterns and identifying areas for improvement.
  • To send you marketing messages: We may use your information to send you marketing messages about our products and services, such as email newsletters and promotional offers. You can unsubscribe from these messages at any time.
  • To comply with the law: We may use your information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, such as those related to data protection and anti-money laundering.

Other Examples Of Data Collected

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to ensure the best possible experience while browsing. Some of these cookies are required to ensure our website functions correctly. Proceeding to use our website means you agree to the use of these functional cookies. Other cookies used allow us to see analytical data to improve our website. On ocassion, we will employ third-parties to offer improved services while browsing our website.

You will be given a choice as to which level of cookies you wish to allow when you first visit our website.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

You can read more about how cookies are used here: https://allaboutcookies.org/

Sharing Your Information

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We share your personal information with the following third parties:

  • Our service providers: We share your information with our service providers, such as hosting providers and email marketing services, who help us operate our website and services.
  • Law enforcement: We may share your information with law enforcement agencies if we are required to do so by law or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to prevent harm or protect our rights.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Your Choices

You have the following choices regarding your personal information:

  • Access and rectification: You have the right to access your personal information and to request that we rectify any inaccuracies in your information.
  • Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Restriction of processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Objection to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Withdrawal of consent: If you have given us your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

To exercise these choices, please contact us at bar@honitonconservativeclub.com.

Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email or through a prominent notice on our website.